One of the nice things about an iPod is the way you can fill it with a random selection from your collection. Much of the time that means skipping through the tunes you posses but don’t really like or aren’t in the mood for, but every so often it means you stumble across a great track you didn’t know you had or had forgotten about.
This morning I stumbled across the strings only version of Eleanor Rigby. Sometimes a tune just grabs you and this morning, for me, it was this track; it forces you to listen closely to the music in a way that you just don’t when the words are there. What clever lads those four were, I think I prefer this to the original.
It also made me think of the Danse Macabre, so here’s that too 
